[clamav-users] How to exclude specific files from clamdscan

[Michael Kyriacou]

Ok thank you very much

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 11:56 AM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <
clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Michael Kyriacou via clamav-users wrote:
>
> > Hello, thank you for the response. I tried to reinstall clamav after I
> saw
> > that there was a new update, but when I install it, it installs version
> > 0.102.4.
>
> One of the problems with using packages is that they tend to be out of
> date.  For something like ClamAV I prefer to install from source.
>
> > Could you give me an example of an ‘ExcludePath’  that could do the
> > following:
> >
> > Exclude a file in /path/to/file
>
> ExcludePath ^/path/to/file$
>
> > Exclude a file in /different/path/to/file
>
> ExcludePath ^/different/path/to/file$
>
> > Exclude all files with a .sys extension, regardless of path
>
> ExcludePath .*\.sys$
>
> There are many sources of information and tutorials about regular
> expressions available on the Web.  There are unfortunately a few
> different kinds of regular expressions.  Stick to the POSIX kind
> and you should be OK.  The regexes used in signatures may be of a
> different (and simplified) kind from POSIX expressions, don't get
> confused if you come across them in the signature documentation.
> POSIX expressions work there too, but possibly less efficiently.
>
> Don't forget to restart the clamd daemon after changing clamd.conf
> (or whatever your package calls the configuration file).
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
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